2016 Arctic Sea Ice Headed To Zero

Share

Source: Arctic News

The image below shows that Arctic sea ice extent on July 3, 2016, was 8,707,651 square km, i.e. less than the 8.75 million square km that extent was on July 3, 2012.


In September 2012, Arctic sea ice extent reached a record low. Given that extent now is only slightly lower than it was in 2012 at the same time of year, can extent this year be expected to reach an even lower minimum, possibly as low as zero ice in September 2016?

The ice this year is certainly headed in that direction, given that the sea ice now is much thinner than it was in 2012. The image below shows sea ice thickness on July 7, 2012, in the left-hand panel, and adds a forecast for July 7, 2016 in the right-hand panel.


Besides being thinner, sea ice now is also much more slushy and fractured into small pieces. The animation below shows that the sea ice close to the North Pole on July 4, 2016, was heavily fractured into pieces that are mostly smaller in size than 10 x 10 km or 6.2 x 6.2 miles. By comparison, sea ice in the same area did develop large cracks in 2012, but even in September 13, 2012, it was not broken up into small pieces.


One big reason behind the dire state the sea ice is in now is ocean heat. On July 2, 2016, sea surface near Svalbard (at the location marker by the green circle) was as warm as 16.7°C or 62.1°F, i.e. 13.5°C or 24.3°F warmer than 1981-2011. This gives an indication how much warmer the water is that is entering the Arctic Ocean.


As the sea ice disappears, less sunlight gets reflected back into space, resulting in additional warming of the Arctic Ocean. In October 2016, the sea ice will return, sealing off the Arctic Ocean, resulting in less heat being able to escape, at the very time the warmest water is entering the Arctic Ocean from the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. The danger of this situation is that a large amount of heat will reach the seafloor and destabilize hydrates, resulting in huge abrupt methane releases that will further contribute to warming. When adding in further factors such as discussed e.g. at this earlier post, this adds up to a potential temperature rise of more than 10°C or 18°F compared to pre-industrial times in less than ten years time from now.

Source: Arctic News

2 Responses to 2016 Arctic Sea Ice Headed To Zero

  1. CJ says:

    I guess people are way too busy. When there is no more ice there and floods begin, possibly people will notice that something very strange is going on.

    CALL IT WHAT YOU LIKE:  SRM, Geoengineineering, Persistent Contrails, Chemtrails, Climate Remediation. It is all the Same.

    I have a few names for it:    Here they are.

    Zombie Spray, Dumb yah Down Spray, Alzheimer's  Spray, Parkinson's Spray, Autism Spray, Cancer Spray, MS Spray, Ben Dover Spray…

    Catch the Drift? Because this Sht. is constantly Drifting into your Lungs and Brain.

    Which in turn will eventually cause a whole multitude of problems that are not very good for your Body and Well Being.

  2. CJ says:

    Well I might as well be the 1st to post. From the Intentional Jet Stream steering from Climate Manipulation to the poisoning of the Gulf of Mexico from Corexit and made made flesh eating disease be dumped into the Gulf to remove the southerner's out of that area through favouritism to fulfill the Agenda 21 or the new agenda that is being pushed ahead because the old one has been too slow of pace.We keep moving forward into the Abyss. Now we have an absolute mess on everyone's hands and no one person has a remedy. Well we will just poison them up earthquake them up, flood them up, bomb them up, drought and cook them up, storm them up, Cancer them up, Disease them up, EMF wave them up, starve them up, martial law them up, and take everything and everything away from them including their dignity. That should fix them all up. The list is endless.Oh don't forget about their guns. We have to take them away also. Just so they can't protect themselves. Sickening

    Well I think Dennie was right. Look in the mirror folks and see who done it. Pretty much we are all to blame for letting it get this far for the need for greed. Money and useless material things. I have to say that the world that we live in is a Pathetic Mess. Enjoy it well you can.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *